Not such a clean machine

I think that I am going to have to place AutoZone engine cleaner into the Haynes Manual Hall of Shame. Just like the Haynes manual the promises to clean my 390 were a tissue of lies. I really should have known better especially bearing in mind my recent successes with common or garden oven cleaner. Last night I was truly "Dans merde creek sans le paddle", as we say im Deutsch.

I was beginning to think that these short nights were becoming a pain but then I realized that next week the evenings get longer so productivity will shortly improve. What with only an hour of daylight and the worthless engine cleaner not much got done, although I did discover that most of the paint has gone from the timing chain cover and it has quite a nice aluminum look which I shall leave on the finished product. Whilst in the AutoZone I bought the Silver paint for the exhaust manifold and the black for the block (if I ever get the grease off). I also raised Gene's eyebrows by getting an aerosol of fluorescent yellow for the oil pan. As the oil pan will hardly be seen it seems like a hidden signature from me. Then Gene mentioned that a few guys paint the back of the differential in yellow with a smiley face. Again it is hardly even seen so that might be fun.

Talking of Gene he has been hard at it without me and a fair amount of sanding has been done behind my back, praise the Lord.

Tomorrow's forecast is for wintry sleet and snow with a high of 35 degrees so I don't anticipate being able to write my usual devastately witty blog, sorry yawls.